This table shows the features included in the Enterprise and Professional Editions of XMLSpy® 2008. Please use this as a guide to determine which edition is most suitable for your needs.
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 | Support for very large XML files |
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| Well-formedness checking |
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| Validation (XML Schema & DTD-based) |
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| Enhanced, tabbed validation window |
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| Intelligent Editing (XML Schema/DTD based entry-help) |
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| Text View with syntax-coloring |
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| Advanced context-sensitive entry-helpers |
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| Schema-based annotation data in entry-helpers |
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| Line Number Margin |
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| Text-folding Margin |
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| Bookmarks & Bookmark Margin |
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| Visual indentation guides |
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| CSS editor |
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| Context sensitive CSS entry helpers |
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| Editing Office Open XML (OOXML) Microsoft Office 2007 data |
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| Editing XML data in zipped archives |
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| Find-in-files window for find & replace in files & entire projects |
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| Find & Replace with enhanced XML capabilities |
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| Find & Replace based on Regular Expressions |
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| Code-completion & syntax-help |
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| Pretty-printing of XML files |
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| One-click comment in / out |
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| Enhanced Grid & Table View |
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| Browser View (HTML/XHTML Preview) |
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| Authentic Document View* |
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| Dynamic Forms for context-sensitive document editing |
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| CALS/HTML Table Support |
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| Spell-checking |
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| OASIS Catalog Support (subset) |
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| Text View with syntax-coloring |
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| Code-completion & syntax-help |
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| DTD Editor |
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| Greatly enhanced graphical XML Schema Editor |
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| Display of attributes in graphical schema diagram |
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| Display of identity constraints in graphical schema diagram |
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| Improved display of schema component browser |
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| Browse schema components by namespace |
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| Support for aggregate Schemas (include/import/redefine) |
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| Improved schema diagram display configuration |
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| Smart restrictions for complex type derivation |
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| Detailed find & replace across multiple schemas |
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| Saving of schema diagram snapshots |
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| Editing of XML Schema identity constraints |
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| Editing of embedded Schemas inside WSDL files |
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| Interface to new SchemaAgent |
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| Conversion between XML Schema & DTD dialects |
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| Improved generation of XML Schema/DTD from use-cases |
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| Generation of Schema from database |
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| Improved generation of XML instance documents based on XML Schema/DTD |
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| Generation of full documentation (in HTML, Word, RTF) |
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| Built-in award-winning XSLT 1.0 processor |
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| Built-in, schema-aware XSLT 2.0 processor |
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| Support for Java, C#, JavaScript, VBScript in XSLT engine |
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| XPath 1.0 support |
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| XPath 2.0 support |
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| Text View with syntax-coloring |
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| XSL Outline and XSLT Info entry helper windows |
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| Code-completion & syntax-help |
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| XPath Analyzer |
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| XPath Analyzer window with 9 tabs for storing results |
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| Evaluating XPath expressions across multiple files at once |
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| Support for external XSL:FO processors |
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| Support for two-step XSL:FO transformation w/advanced XSLT engine |
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| Support for external XSLT processors |
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| Debug XSLT 1.0 stylesheets |
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| First debugger to support XSLT 2.0 stylesheets |
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| Debug XML and XSL files in Grid and Text View |
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| Dynamic Output in Grid, Text and Browser Views |
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| Single-Stepping (Step Into, Step Out, Step Over) |
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| Node-based Breakpoint Management |
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| Node-based Tracepoint Management |
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| Setting Tracepoints for XPath Values |
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| Call Stack, Context Windows |
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| View and change variables during execution |
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| Watch Windows with complete XPath support |
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| Template Explorer with Priorities |
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| Debug stylesheets that contain Java, C#, JavaScript, VBScript |
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| Profile XSLT 1.0/2.0 stylesheets |
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| Profile XSLT files in Grid and Text View |
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| Profiling by call graph or hit count |
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| Profile stylesheets that contain Java, C#, JavaScript, VBScript |
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| Schema-aware XQuery editor with syntax coloring |
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| Intelligent editing support |
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| XQuery statements & functions builder |
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| Dynamic variable entry-helper |
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| Executing XQuery against IBM DB2 9 |
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| Support for IBM's DB2 XQuery extensions |
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| Debug XQuery 1.0 expressions |
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| View processor context and partial result fragments |
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| Single-stepping (Step Into, Step Out, Step Over) |
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| Node-based breakpoint management |
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| Call stack, context windows |
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| View and change variables during execution |
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| Watch windows with complete XPath support |
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| Profile XQuery documents |
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| Profile XQuery files in Grid and Text View |
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| Profiling by call graph or hit count |
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| Editing OOXML data in Word 2007 |
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| Editing OOXML data in Excel 2007 |
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| Editing OOXML data in PowerPoint 2007 |
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| Validating OOXML data in Office 2007 documents |
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| Transforming Office 2007 data with XSLT |
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| Processing Office 2007 data with XQuery |
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| Accessing & editing XML data in zipped files |
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| Saving XML data back to zipped archives |
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| Viewing zipped file properties (files, sizes, etc.) |
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| Adding / deleting files from archive |
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| Transforming XML in zipped files w/ XSLT |
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| Processing XML in zipped files w/ XQuery |
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| Database Export/Import |
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| Legacy data conversion (CSV/FLF text file import/export) |
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| Import of Microsoft Word (97-2003) documents |
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| Generation of XML Schema/DTD from database |
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| Generate XML Schemas according to SQL/XML standard |
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| Generation of database from XML Schema/DTD |
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| Hierarchical Database Import based on XML Schema |
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| SQL/XML Database Import based on XML Schema |
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| Database Query window |
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| Editing DB data in Database Query window |
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| Drag & drop SQL, SQL/XML editor |
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| Querying and editing XML data in IBM DB2 9 |
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| Registering XML Schemas in IBM DB2 9 |
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| Support for Microsoft Access |
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| Support for Microsoft SQL Server |
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| Support for Oracle 9i and 10g |
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| Support for IBM DB2 |
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| Deep integration with IBM DB2 9 pureXML |
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| Support for Sybase |
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| Support for MySQL |
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| Support for generic relational databases via ADO |
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| Support for generic relational databases via ODBC |
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| Support for accessing Views and System Tables in all supported databases |
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| Executing XQuery against IBM DB2 9 |
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| IBM DB2 9 XQuery extensions |
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| XML Schema extensions for Oracle 9i/10g XML DB |
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| XML Schema extensions for Microsoft SQLXML |
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| Oracle 9i & 10g XML Database support |
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| Compare single files |
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| Compare entire directories |
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| Two comparison modes: textual or XML-aware |
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| Multiple options for XML-aware comparisons, such as entity resolution, ignore attribute order, ignore comments, etc. |
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| Show differences in Text or Grid view |
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| Merge option to help migrate changes from one file to the other |
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| Merge option now also available in XML views |
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| Create a connection (ADO or ODBC) |
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| XML Editing for business users - hides complexity of XML tags |
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| Database content browsing and editing for business users |
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| Editing XML content in IBM DB2 9 |
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| Represents repeating elements as semantic tables |
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